guild wars 2

Official Site: Guild Wars 2
Studio: ArenaNet/NCsoft
Launch Date: August 28, 2012
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Cash Shop, No Sub, Paid Expansions)
Platform: PC

How Guild Wars 2 will improve WvW scoring

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The Guild Wars 2 community has been asking for improvements to scoring in the game's world-vs-world battles, and ArenaNet is moving swiftly to bring...
To return where others have gone before, but not like this.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 64: To boldly return

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online, Chronicles of Elyria, Marvel Heroes, WildStar, TERA, and LOTRO, plus a mailbag question on metacritic for MMOs.

One Shots: Slipping between shadows

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I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...

Massively Overthinking: The sandbox MMORPG disconnect

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This week's Massively Overthinking was inspired by a reader who decided to go by Sandboxless in Seattle when he penned this note of frustration to us. I...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Weighing in on the Guild Wars 2 WvW poll

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The first WvW poll is about to close and the votes have been flying in during the last few days, driving home that Guild Wars...

The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when you levelcap in an MMORPG?

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I recently levelcapped another character in Guild Wars 2, my Asura Guardian, and yet as soon as she dinged, some of the spark of...

One Shots: Guild meeting

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Guilds... assemble! Because there's nothing like logging into a vast virtual world and then plunking your virtual butt down in a room, am I...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO business models

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Not too long ago, there was all but one way that you would pay for an MMO, and that was as a monthly subscription....
Next year in Lion's Arch.

Guild Wars 2 kicks off its first World vs. World poll

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Are you a dedicated WvW player in Guild Wars 2 with strong views about what project the developers should be working on next to...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: Ten City of Heroes systems every MMO should have stolen by now

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Today, City of Heroes turns 12 years old. Except it doesn't; the game shut down three years ago, it never lived until it reached twelve,...

MMO Mechanics: Innovating mechanics to refresh Guild Wars 2

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I usually keep MMO Mechanics quite general by looking at several games as examples to highlight my point regarding the mechanics of choice in each article,...

One Shots: Jedi to the max

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Are you all the Jedi you could possibly be? If not, then subscribe to our exclusive six-week course, where we'll teach you such advanced...
Both hands!

Leaderboard: Will you be giving Guild Wars 2 another chance?

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This week's Guild Wars 2 update has been widely welcomed by both current and past players for its broad-sweeping quality-of-life adjustments (and rollbacks) for...

Betawatch: WoW Legion is launching in August (April 22, 2016)

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This week, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft's sixth expansion, Legion, will indeed arrive this summer as planned. August 30th is the big day....
I can see I'm going blind.

Guild Wars 2 begins testing WvW world linking today

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ArenaNet is kicking off the first stage of Guild Wars 2's WvW World Linking beta tonight beginning at 10 p.m. EDT for North American...

Perfect Ten: What I loved about Dungeons and Dragons Online

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Dungeons and Dragons Online was a very strange game at first glance. Ten years ago, I ventured into Stormreach with no more motivation than a longstanding...

The Daily Grind: Are we ever going to see a WoW-killer-killer?

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I tried to answer a question from a listener named Kenny, who proposed that we consider...

Korean analysts believe Blade & Soul’s western launch generated $17M in new revenue

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Korean investment firm KDB Daewoo Securities has published its outlook on MMO giant NCsoft for the past and coming quarter. "We estimate Blade & Soul...

Guild Wars 2 now has an unofficial mobile app called GW2 Sidekick

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If you're still bummed because the once-promised official Guild Wars 2 companion app never materialized, how about a consolation prize in the form of...

Jukebox Heroes: Six cover songs of popular MMO tunes

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There's a dedicated subcommunity of video game music afficionados out there that love these soundtracks so much that they devote considerable effort to producing...

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